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Doublet of load, which has however become semantically restricted. The now-archaic lode continues the old sense of Old English lād (“way, course, journey”) but by the 19th century survived only dialectally in the sense of “watercourse”, as a technical term in mining, and in the compounds lodestone, lodestar.

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ləʊd/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /loʊd/

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• (Australia) IPA^(key): /ləʉd/

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• Rhymes: -əʊd
• Homophones: load, lowed

lode (plural lodes)

1. (obsolete) A way or path; a road.
2. (dialectal) A watercourse.
3. (mining) A vein of metallic ore that lies within definite boundaries, or within a fissure.
   • 1967, Henry C. Berg, Edward Huntington Cobb, Metalliferous Lode Deposits of Alaska, page 14:

     The metals traditionally sought in the Bristol Bay region have been gold and copper, mostly in deposits near Lake Iliamna. An exception is a gold lode discovered about 1930 near Sleitat Mountain (4), where about $200 in gold was recovered from small quartz veins near the periphery of a small granitic intrusive body.

4. (by extension) A rich source of supply.
   • 2019 September 25, Gary Stix, “Two Linguists Use Their Skills to Inspect 21,739 Trump Tweets”, in Scientific American‎^[2], New York, N.Y.: Springer Nature America, Inc., →ISSN, →OCLC, archived from the original on 10 September 2026:

     In recent years, Jack Grieve of the department of English and linguistics at the University of Birmingham in England has embraced Twitter as a bountiful lode for looking at language-use patterns.

• lodestone

• → Irish: lód

• DOLE, Delo, Deol, Doel, Dole, Ledo, OLED, dole, leod, olde

lode m

1. cloth, fabric

• Umberto Patuzzi, ed., (2013) Ünsarne Börtar, Luserna: Comitato unitario delle linguistiche storiche germaniche in Italia / Einheitskomitee der historischen deutschen Sprachinseln in Italien

• IPA^(key): /ˈlɔ.de/
• Rhymes: -ɔde
• Hyphenation: lò‧de

From Latin laudem, from the Proto-Indo-European root *lēwt-, *lēwdʰ- (“song, sound”), from *lēw- (“to sound, resound, sing out”).

• loda, lauda (obsolete)

lode f (plural lodi)

1. praise

   Synonym: elogio

   senza infamia e senza lode

   without infamy and without praise

• “lode”, in Vocabolario Treccani on line (in Italian), Istituto dell'Enciclopedia Italiana, 2026

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

lode f pl

1. plural of loda

• Delo, ledo

A Germanic borrowing, though the source is unclear:

• Borrowed from Middle Low German lode (“piece of lead (used as weight), plummet”),
• or perhaps from an East Frisian word, from Old Frisian lād. Compare Saterland Frisian Lood or Middle Dutch lood, which all had the same meaning (also compare German Lot (“plummet, solder”)). This borrowing is first attested in 17th-century dictionaries.^[1]

Both sources are from Proto-West Germanic *laud. Distantly related to Latvian plūst (“to stream, to flow”).

• IPA^(key): [lūōdɛ]

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lode f (5th declension)

1. (mathematics) sphere

   lodes diametrs ― diameter of a sphere

   lodes rādiuss ― radius of a sphere

   lodes tilpums ― volume of a sphere

2. object with spherical form; (sports) ball

   zemes lode, zemeslode ― the Earth Globe

   koka, dzelzs lode ― wood, iron ball

   grūst lodi ― to push a ball

3. bullet, cannonball

   iešaut kādam lodi krūtīs ― to shoot a bullet in someone's chest

   lielgabala lode ― cannonball

• lodīte

On the southernmost Livonian toponyms Dzintra Hirša mentions a lake Lúodis in Zarasai District Municipality, Lithuania (as well as Luõdes ezers and Luodezers in Latvia) connecting these with Livonian lūod (“northwest”) and mentioning Latvian lodes vējš (“northwestern wind”) as being from the same source.^[2]

lode f (5th declension)

1. (dialectal, usually attributively in the expression lodes vējš) northwest

   lodes vējš ― northwestern wind

• lade
• late

Probably from Old Saxon liodan, from Proto-West Germanic *leudan (“to sprout”).

lōde f

1. a one-year shoot, sprout, or twig

• Low German: lode
  • → German: Lode

• August Lübben and Christoph Walther, Mittelniederdeutsches Handwörterbuch, Norden/Leipzig: Diedr. Soltau’s Verlag, 1888

Inherited from Old High German lodo, ludo.

• IPA^(key): (before 13^th CE) /ˈlo.də/

lode m

1. rough woolen fabric

• German: Loden

• “lode” in Mittelhochdeutsches Handwörterbuch, Matthias von Lexer, 3 vols., Leipzig 1872–1878.

lode

1. neuter singular of loden

lode

1. inflection of loď:
   1. genitive singular
   2. nominative/accusative plural

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